Senior QA Engineer
Caesars Entertainment, Inc. is the largest casino-entertainment Company in the U.S. and one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since its beginning in Reno, NV, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment, Inc. has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Caesars Entertainment, Inc.’s resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah’s®, Horseshoe®, and Eldorado® brand names. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. offers diversified gaming, entertainment and hospitality amenities, one-of-a-kind destinations, and a full suite of mobile and online gaming and sports betting experiences. All tied to its industry-leading Caesars Rewards loyalty program, the Company focuses on building value with its guests through a unique combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technology leadership.
Our people at Caesars are at the heart of everything that we do, and we offer a fast-paced environment where we have fun, celebrate success and give them all the tools that they need to be successful in the role. It’s not just our colleagues that we look after – we’ve got a responsibility to our customers too so we work hard towards our ambition that no-one is harmed by gambling.
Working with Caesars Digital, you will be at the heart of the technological revolution with one of the world’s most trusted betting and gaming companies. Caesars Digital deals with projects ranging from desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites, to name a few.
At Caesars you will be part of a great working atmosphere, performing complex work in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward-thinking managers.
About project:
The project revolves around building an online casino for the US market, and involves building backend microservices. We strive to use the Domain Driven Design and common sense as the major design drivers. We’re a team of engineers who have been working in this industry for 5+ years in the European markets (UK, ES, IT). Our goal is to build the #1 online casino platform in US.
At the moment, functional tests are written by developers, test stack: Groovy + Spock. We are looking for someone who would set the direction for testing the entire backend.
Scope of the team you’d join:
- API testing (automation)
- Java 17
- Spring Boot
- Domain Driven Design
- Microservices
- AWS
- Kubernetes + Istio
- Splunk
- NewRelic
Job requirements:
Essential
- Desire to learn the project and the business domain
- Desire to deliver the best quality product for our Customers
- Experience in / knowledge of Agile software product delivery and / or continuous improvement mindset
- Understands the functional programming paradigm and benefits
Desirable
- Software development and scripting skills
- Java skills
- Experience with effective CI/CD in an agile software development environment
- Non-functional testing experience using tools such as Gatling
- Experience in implementing TDD and BDD successfully within software development teams
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Prior work experience in software quality assurance
- Focus on delivering results and enjoy of working as part of a team
- Enjoy of collaborating and solving problems with others, keeping solutions as simple as possible
- Enjoy of learning new skills and keeping up to date with developments in technology
- High motivation. You want to work with the best and be the best. Like to build teams and great software
Responsibilities:
- Working as part of the Caesars Digital Product Development team and driving our exciting global business and technology expansion for future opportunities
- You will own the quality vision and strategy for the local team, acting as quality champion to ensure the dev team members will be working together towards a better quality product
- You will participate in the Product development process from the requirements stage to the actual Product delivery, providing QA analysis and validation on each stage
- You will define test approaches with the team as part of new feature development so that functional and non-functional requirements are validated during development
- You will own and improve any existing QA assets that add value, refactoring them to bring further improvements or replacing them if there are better options available
- You are comfortable working in a constantly changing work environment and are fully dedicated to automate as much as possible with a focus on where the value is
- You will contribute heavily to the QA community of practice and inspire the team to continuously improve
- While there is a some bias towards automation, you will also perform manual and exploratory testing if and when required as part of product development, to understand the product in more details and find defects
- Provide transparency on QA activities with your team to encourage collaboration across the team
